HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall
This book should be required reading for any and all future missionaries. Broomhall does the Christian world a great service by detailing Hudson Taylor's successes as well as his trials. The most remarkable feature of this book is the faith of Hudson Taylor. In the midst of incredible adversity this man abandoned himself to Jesus and the promises of Scripture. He rested solely on the provision of God, letting no man know his need. Throughout the book, Taylor's adversities and God's deliverances are a source of encouragement and inspiration that will lift the spirits of any true believer to "cast all your cares on Him because He cares for you." This book is an excellent read about a life well-lived and a spiritual journey of great depth.
This book should be required reading for any and all future missionaries. Broomhall does the Christian world a great service by detailing Hudson Taylor's successes as well as his trials. The most remarkable feature of this book is the faith of Hudson Taylor. In the midst of incredible adversity this man abandoned himself to Jesus and the promises of Scripture. He rested solely on the provision of God, letting no man know his need. Throughout the book, Taylor's adversities and God's deliverances are a source of encouragement and inspiration that will lift the spirits of any true believer to "cast all your cares on Him because He cares for you."
This book is an excellent read about a life well-lived and a spiritual journey of great depth.
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174 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
wider mission of usefulness which encompassed the<br />
world. But that must be reserved for another chapter.<br />
Here we must still follow his policy of "always advanciJ:ig''.<br />
In October, 1889, Hudson Taylor issued a little pamphlet<br />
entitled To Every Creature. After recalling the fact<br />
that they were nearing the close of an important decade<br />
. in the history of the Mission, he continues:<br />
"This decade has witnessed the out-going of the eighty<br />
missionaries, <strong>who</strong>m <strong>God</strong> gave us in response to our prayers<br />
for the Seventy, and in the following year of forty others,<br />
among <strong>who</strong>m were the well-known Cambridge band ....<br />
<strong>The</strong>n we have to praise <strong>God</strong> for the one hundred missionaries<br />
given us in 1887, and for the more than fifty <strong>who</strong> followed<br />
them last year, including the first American party ....<br />
"When we turn from the total number of Protestant<br />
communicants-under 40,000-to think of the population of<br />
China, the contrast is appalling .... <strong>The</strong> Master's words are<br />
'To every creature'; how far are we fulfilling them? ...<br />
"How are we going to treat the Lord Jesus Christ in<br />
reference to this com<strong>man</strong>d? Shall we definitely drop the title<br />
Lord as applied to Him? ... "<br />
He then proceeds to indicate how this project could<br />
be translated from proposition into practice, based upon<br />
his own experiences as an evangelist with William Bums.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se proposals he submits to the reader for earnest<br />
prayer, especially in view of the great Missionary Conference<br />
to meet in Shanghai during the following May,<br />
when he was to preach the opening sermon.<br />
And when that Conference met this subject was his<br />
theme.<br />
"If as an organized Conference", he said, "we were to set<br />
ourselves to obey the com<strong>man</strong>d of our Lord to the full, we<br />
should have such an outpouring of the Spirit, such a Pentecost<br />
as the world has not seen since the Spirit was poured
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